Legislation Approved by the Kentucky General Assembly

The Kentucky Secretary of State receives and files all bills approved by the General Assembly. This includes: (1) legislation signed by the Governor; (2) legislation to become law without the Governor's signature; (3) legislation overriding the Governor's veto; and (4) legislation which includes line-item vetoes.

This database includes scanned images of all enacted legislation filed with the Secretary of State during the current session of the Kentucky General Assembly. Legislation may be searched by bill number, date of filing, and topic. 

To search the enacted legislation database, click here.

The results will allow you to view the scanned legislation by either downloading a multi-page PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader), downloading a multi-page TIFF image (requiring a third party TIFF viewer), or by viewing the document via a server side application that will return a single page image at a time.  Documents longer than 200 pages have been broken into 200 page sections.  The sections are listed and can be downloaded individually.

To track current bills that have not been enacted, visit Kentucky.gov's free Bill Watch service.  Legislation may also be tracked by visiting the Legislative Research Commission website. 

For inquiries regarding legislation enacted prior to the 2004 Regular Session, please contact the Office of the Secretary of State at (502) 564-3490 or email.

To search the enacted legislation database, click here.